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March 1, 2023
MySQL 5.7 End of Life Six Months Away – Switch to Percona Server for MySQL Today!
Oracle’s MySQL 5.7 has had a good, long run, but the official End of Life is October of 2023. The [...]
February 27, 2023
Run Percona Server for MongoDB on Your ARM-based MacBooks and More
The transition to Apple Silicon (the M1, M2 ARM-based CPUs) has been great for macOS fans in many ways, but [...]
February 27, 2023
Percona Monitoring and Management 2.35, Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.0.4: Release Roundup February 27, 2023
It’s time for the release roundup! Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations [...]
February 24, 2023
PMM Access Control: A Comprehensive Guide With Use Cases and Examples
Why you might need granular Access Controls As companies grow from startups to larger organizations, they establish a hierarchical structure [...]
February 24, 2023
PMM V2.35: Label-based Access Control, General Availability of Helm Chart, and More!
Today, we are excited to announce the release of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) V2.35, including a tech preview of [...]
February 24, 2023
Percona Server for MongoDB 6 Adds Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
We’re pleased to announce that Percona Server for MongoDB 6.0.4 adds support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 and [...]
February 20, 2023
Feedback Wanted: Making EXPLAIN Require Less Privileges for INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE Statements
Introduction/TLDR: We are considering changing EXPLAIN in Percona Server for MySQL to require less privileges for providing execution plans for [...]
February 15, 2023
Deploying MySQL Group Replication With Terraform
Previously, I wrote about our Terraform provider to deploy Percona Server for MySQL (Percona Server for MySQL: Automatic Cloud Deployment [...]
February 14, 2023
Deploying Percona Monitoring and Management With Terraform
Recently, we released Percona Monitoring and Management 2.34 (PMM) which includes upgrades for backup and Database as a Service (DBaaS) [...]
February 13, 2023
Tech Preview of Percona Operator for MySQL 0.4.0, Percona Distribution for MongoDB 6.0.4: Release Roundup February 13, 2023
It’s time for the release roundup! Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations [...]
February 10, 2023
Percona XtraBackup and MySQL 5.7 Queries in Waiting for Table Flush State
Percona XtraBackup is an open source hot backup utility for MySQL-based servers. To take consistent and hot backup, it uses [...]
February 10, 2023
Storage Autoscaling With Percona Operator for MongoDB
Previously, deploying and maintaining a database usually meant many burdensome chores and repetitive tasks to ensure proper functioning. In the [...]
February 10, 2023
Percona XtraBackup Now Supports IAM Instance Profile
Amazon instance profiles are used to pass IAM roles to an EC2 instance. This IAM role can be queried using [...]
January 30, 2023
Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.0.3, Updates to Percona Distribution for MySQL: Release Roundup January 30, 2023
It’s time for the release roundup! Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations [...]
January 24, 2023
Backup Databases on Kubernetes With VolumeSnapshots
Databases on Kubernetes continue their rising trend. We see the growing adoption of our Percona Kubernetes Operators and the demand [...]
January 23, 2023
[BUG] Stopping Purge/Resuming Purge in Error Logs After Upgrade to MySQL 5.7.40
We had a couple of cases where clients reported that the MySQL error log was flooded with the below note: [...]
January 20, 2023
Help! I Am Out of Disk Space!
How can we fix a nasty out-of-space issue leveraging the flexibility of Percona Operator for MySQL? When planning a database [...]
January 19, 2023
Why MySQL Could Be Slow With Large Tables
16 years ago, our founder Peter Zaitsev covered this topic and some of the points described there are still valid, and [...]
January 17, 2023
Keep Your Database Secure With Percona Advisors
The definition of Percona Advisors by ChatGPT is the following: Percona Advisors can help organizations implement robust security measures to [...]
January 11, 2023
Save Time and Money With Free-to-Use Incremental Backups for MongoDB
MongoDB is a great database that provides outstanding high availability solutions out of the box. For most Database Administrators (DBAs) [...]